Guarding Graph Neural Networks for Unsupervised Graph Anomaly Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16366v1
• Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:09:05 GMT
• Title: Guarding Graph Neural Networks for Unsupervised Graph Anomaly Detection
• Authors: Yuanchen Bei, Sheng Zhou, Jinke Shi, Yao Ma, Haishuai Wang, Jiajun Bu,
• Abstract summary: Unsupervised graph anomaly detection aims at identifying rare patterns that deviate from the majority in a graph without the aid of labels. Recent advances have utilized Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to learn effective node representations. We propose a framework for Guarding Graph Neural Networks for Unsupervised Graph Anomaly Detection (G3AD)
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• Abstract: Unsupervised graph anomaly detection aims at identifying rare patterns that deviate from the majority in a graph without the aid of labels, which is important for a variety of real-world applications. Recent advances have utilized Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to learn effective node representations by aggregating information from neighborhoods. This is motivated by the hypothesis that nodes in the graph tend to exhibit consistent behaviors with their neighborhoods. However, such consistency can be disrupted by graph anomalies in multiple ways. Most existing methods directly employ GNNs to learn representations, disregarding the negative impact of graph anomalies on GNNs, resulting in sub-optimal node representations and anomaly detection performance. While a few recent approaches have redesigned GNNs for graph anomaly detection under semi-supervised label guidance, how to address the adverse effects of graph anomalies on GNNs in unsupervised scenarios and learn effective representations for anomaly detection are still under-explored. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we propose a simple yet effective framework for Guarding Graph Neural Networks for Unsupervised Graph Anomaly Detection (G3AD). Specifically, G3AD introduces two auxiliary networks along with correlation constraints to guard the GNNs from inconsistent information encoding. Furthermore, G3AD introduces an adaptive caching module to guard the GNNs from solely reconstructing the observed data that contains anomalies. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed G3AD can outperform seventeen state-of-the-art methods on both synthetic and real-world datasets.

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